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Arabists Paperback - 1995

by Robert D. Kaplan

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In this highly acclaimed and original work of social and cultural history, the author of the bestselling Balkan Ghosts relates the never-before-told story of the expatriate elite that shaped American policy in the Middle East for more than a century. 39 photos.

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A tight-knit group closely linked by intermarriage as well as class and old school ties, the "Arabists" were men and women who spent much of their lives living and working in the Arab world as diplomats, military attaches, intelligence agents, scholar-adventurers, and teachers. As such, the Arabists exerted considerable influence both as career diplomats and as bureaucrats within the State Department from the early nineteenth century to the present. But over time, as this work shows, the group increasingly lost touch with a rapidly changing American society, growing both more insular and headstrong and showing a marked tendency to assert the Arab point of view. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, and other official and private sources, Kaplan reconstructs the 100-year history of the Arabist elite, demonstrating their profound influence on American attitudes toward the Middle East, and tracing their decline as an influx of ethnic and regional specialists has transformed the State Department and challenged the power of the old elite.

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It was 1960, the height of the Cold War, and Yemen was hurtling into the thirteenth century.

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  • Title Arabists
  • Author Robert D. Kaplan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 3rd Free Press
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Free Press, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1995-07-01
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780028740232 / 0028740238
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Biography, Orientalists - United States - Biography
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • New York Times, 10/08/1995, Page 40

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Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty-four books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including China Whisperers, Waste Land, The Loom of Time, The Tragic Mind, The Revenge of Geography, Asia's Cauldron, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. He is a distinguished senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin. He was a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board and the US Navy's Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world's "Top 100 Global Thinkers."
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